Pakistan is not safe

From Aniruddha, Australia
The CT has been postponed till oct 2009. The PCB had done all it could to provide security and infrastructure for the event to take place but 4 major nations pulled out and thus the tournament has been postponed. Pakistanis have been saying that bomb blasts have become part of our life be it in Pakistan, Mumbai or London and hence Pakistan should not be isolated especially since they have done their best to provide Presidential security.

My point is, the Pakistani government has to do a lot more for the world to believe that the common Pakistani people are as much victims of terrorism as anywhere else in the world, rather than being looked upon as those who support and breed terrorists. Cricket players are normal human beings who have families of their own, so it is not fair to expect them to be irresponsible to their families and risk their own lives. Presidential security was not good enough to save Benazir Bhutto and with Musharraf gone (perhaps the only man fighting against terrorists in Pakistan), no amount of security cover would suffice.

My final point is the standard of Pakistan cricket as it stands today. What attraction does one have of playing there? By not playing against Pakistan, you are no longer missing playing against Wasim, Waqar, Inzi. Yes Yousuf and Younis are world class but just as the security cover, that's not good enough. A word for the cricketer who voiced concern over playing in Pakistan. Cricketers are not soldiers and live in a free world, no one can force them to play. If the soldiers had this freedom, I doubt if they would be fighting in Pakistan.

World cup 2011? Your guess is as good as mine.